Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz threatened Thursday to reconsider the kingdom's relations with Israel if the Hebrew state carries out its plans to annex the Palestinian territories in the occupied West Bank. "We will not accept unilateral Israeli measures to annex the Palestinian territories and we will have to reconsider relations with Israel in all its dimensions," said Razzaz in an interview with the Jordanian official news agency Petra.
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"But we are not going to rush," said the Prime Minister of Jordan, whose country is, with Egypt, a signatory to a peace treaty with Israel. "We hope that a unified Arab position will be adopted to respond to the threats (of annexation) and that the international community will do its duty to protect peace not only in this region, but on a global scale , " he said. he declares.
Israel plans to annex more than 130 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley, a strip of land stretching between Lake Tiberias and the Dead Sea, which would be integrated into its eastern border with Jordan.
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More than 600,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements, and Palestinians and the international community consider the settlements illegal.
Jordan has repeatedly rejected any Israeli annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories, warning that it will "kill the chances of peace". In a recent interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, King Abdullah II warned Israel of a "major conflict" with the kingdom if parts of the West Bank were annexed.
The new Israeli government must consider the implementation of the American project for the Middle East which provides for this annexation by Israel of the Jordan Valley and the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
